Word Finder - starved

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To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

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To be very hungry.

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Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?

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To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

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To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

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The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.

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To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.

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(especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

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I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

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Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

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(by extension) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.

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Extremely hungry.

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I'm starved! I haven't eaten since breakfast.

I'm 'most starved to death.

He was starved to death.

We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

In 32, being seized with an illness believed to be incurable, he starved himself to death.

We were just like everybody else around the neighborhood, and we sure never starved.

After several years of struggle, during which Egypt recovered its independence, Babylon was starved into surrender, and the rebel viceroy and his supporters were put to death.

Occupying 135 degrees of latitude, living on the shores of frozen or of tropical waters; at altitudes varying from sea-level to several thousands of feet; in forests, grassy prairies or deserts; here starved, there in plenty; with a night here of six months' duration, there twelve hours long; here among health-giving winds, and there cursed with malaria - this brown man became, in different culture provinces, brunette or black, tall or short, long-headed or short-headed, and developed on his own hemisphere variations from an average type.

In the interests of humanity care should be taken that the earth-stopper always has with him a small terrier, as it is often necessary to "stop-out" permanently; and unless a dog is run through the drain some unfortunate creature in it, a fox, cat or rabbit, may be imprisoned and starved to death.

In 1841 the republic of Texas, claiming that its western boundary was the Rio Grande, sent a force of 300 men to New Mexico to enforce these claims. The Texans reached the frontier in a starved and exhausted condition, were made prisoners by the New Mexican militia, and were sent to Mexico, where after a short term of confinement they were released.

He hasn't been missing long enough to have starved.

The count Ugolino was afterwards starved to death with several of his sons and grandsons in the manner made familiar by the 32nd canto of Dante's Inferno.

A starved and decimated population stood face to face with difficulties, not only on every frontier but indeed to some extent within the borders of the State itself.

The most notable event in the history of the town was its siege by Fairfax in 1648, when the raw levies of the Royalists in the second civil war held his army at bay for nearly eleven weeks, only surrendering when starved out, and when Cromwell's victory in the north made further resistance useless.

A force of 30,000 was to be raised, La Fayette and Bailly, the mayor of Paris, were to be assassinated, and Paris was to be starved into submission by cutting off supplies.

All departments were being starved, and even the salaries of poorly paid officials were in arrear.

By 1342 Roxburgh, Stirling and Edinburgh castles were again in Scottish hands, though the Knight of Liddesdale captured and starved to death, in Hermitage castle, his gallant companion in arms, Sir Alexander Ramsay, who had relieved the garrison of Dunbar.

Among other dogs of India are the pariah, which is merely a mongrel, run wild and half starved; the poligar dog, an immense creature peculiar to the south; the greyhound, used for coursing; and the mastiff of Tibet and Bhutan.

Finland has been visited at different periods since by these scourges; so late as 1848 whole villages were starved during a dreadful famine.

The garrison in the Akra having been starved into submission, Simon triumphantly entered that fortress in May 142.

One by one the cities fell, Babylon being finally starved into surrender (648 B.C.) after Samas-sum-yukin had burnt himself in his palace to avoid falling into the conqueror's hands.

In the last-named year a Senonian named Drappes threatened the Provincia, but was captured and starved himself to death.

Many of the river bluffs rise to an unusual height, Starved Rock, near Ottawa, in La Salle county, being 150 ft.

The regular mode of catching elephants is by means of a keddah, or gigantic stockade, into which a wild herd is driven, then starved into submission, and tamed by animals already domesticated.

Mahratta invasions from central India, piratical devastations on the sea-board, banditti who marched about the interior in bodies of 50,000 men, floods which drowned the harvests of whole districts, and droughts in which a third of the population starved to death, kept alive a sense of human powerlessness in the presence of an omnipotent fate.

A final mission to Persia, probably in 367, was a failure, and Antalcidas, deeply chagrined and fearful of the consequences, is said to have starved himself to death.

In the 'seventies, after a succession of wet seasons, and again in the 'eighties, settlement was pushed far westward, beyond the limits of safe agriculture, but hundreds of settlers - and indeed many entire communities - were literally starved out by the recurrence of droughts.

He is said also to have starved to death twenty-two knights of Poitou who had been among his captives.

But all his efforts were foiled, and the Norman capital surrendered, completely starved out,on the i9th of January 1419.

Once more Babylon was besieged by the Assyrians and starved into surrender.

The destruction of their crops starved the people into submission, and the contest was only less terrible than the first Desmond war because it was much shorter.

The king, the supreme lord, was the only lord without lands, a nomad in his own realms, merely lingering there until starved out.

Bragg indeed expected that Rosecrans would be starved into retreat.

For as long as they do not rid themselves of temporal glory, they are starved of spiritual nourishment.

Without iron the hemoglobin molecules cannot carry oxygen and the tissues of the body become oxygen starved.

Even the great fortress of Castra Vetera (Xanten) was starved.

The older plants will occasionally require the roots pruned in order to keep them in as small pots as possible without being starved.

The nobles and gentry clung to the wealth of the old church; the preachers, but for congregational offerings, must have starved.

Whilst they remain with her she is peculiarly vicious and aggressive, defending them with the greatest courage and energy, and when robbed of them is terrible in her rage; but she has been known to desert them when pressed, and even to eat them when starved.

Instead, his brain had starved for lack of oxygen, leading to the present situation.

The animal experimentation involved in Cold Buster's development included rats being frozen, starved, and injected with drugs, including barbiturates.

If Keseberg said that human liver was better than lean beef, most likely a starved body more than a perverted mind was speaking.

Areas so affected are called eutrophic, whilst more remote ocean waters which become starved of nutrients in summer are referred to as oligotrophic.

The starved fibroids should then disappear or become smaller.

Unfortunately, his brain was starved of oxygen and he was left severely brain damaged, with spastic quadriplegia.

Thos who take a stand will be literally starved to death in funding terms.

For too long Britain's railways were systematically starved of investment.

Soviet soldiers who had been taken prisoner had been deliberately starved to death.

You would think we were poor starved waifs the way the wives of the organizers tried to fill us up with food.

They were starved of adequate food and were routinely beaten by sectarian, bigoted prison warders.

A few peasants of Lombardy still believe that one who has received extreme unction ought to be left to die, and that sick people may be starved to death through the withholding of food on superstitious grounds.